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Here is one thing we did not learn:

The Machine is a joke based on the character in 8mm that goes by the same name. We didn't learn this because we already knew this. We put a clip from 8mm in the video. But thanks to everyone who emailed a plot summary of the film.

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And here are some things The Machine is most likely not:

The Machine is not a tribute to this old Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP track. Then again, that song could be an homage to 8mm...

The Machine is in no way connected to Brian Wilson's post-save crossed-arms gesture. According to this guy, "It is apparently an odd mixture of something about his christian religiousness, something about his late father, and something about a brand of clothing."

The Machine is probably not connected to defunct San Francisco metal band Savage Machiine. The belief that he is based primarily on the egregious misspelling of Machine as Machiine.

The Machine is most likely not related to '80s wrestler Ax of the WWF tag-team Demolition. Despite all this evidence furnished by reader Adam: